Dead-block for cars



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DEAD BLOCK FOR GARS.

No. 416,506. Y Patented Dec. 3, 1889.

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CHARLES T. SCHOEN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

DEAD-BLOCK FOR CARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 416,506, dated December 3, 1889.

i Application filed September 20, 1889. Serial No. 324,538. (No model.) i

To @ZZ whom t may concern: Be it known that I, CHARLES T. SGHOEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of .Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Dead- Blocks or Bumpers for Railway-Oars, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to provide a serviceable substitute for the wooden and cast-iron dead-blocks or bumpersused especially on freight-cars. The cast-iron deadblocks are heavy and involve the carrying of excessive dead-weight, and in addition chip and crack under concussion in use. The wooden dead-blocks are very soon battered to pieces.

My invention consists of a dead-block or bumper made of pressed steel, by preference, although it may be made of other Wrought metal shaped in dies or otherwise.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention, in the several figures of which like parts are similarly designated, Figure l is a perspective View of the body of the dead-block; Fig. 2, a front elevation -of the complete device; Fig. 3, a plan view,

and Fig. 4t an end View. Figs. 5 and 6 are cross-sections of modifications.

The body c has its face curved, so as to receive the blow when the cars are on a curve, and is made with the top and bottom plates b c and with a countersunk portion d to receive the fastening-bolt. I prefer to corrugate or rib the body, as at c c e e, in order to re-enforce and strengthen the same. The body so constructed has attached to it in any suitable manner and byany suitable means a flanged base f. This flanged base has a number of dowels or lugs f/,ppunched up to enter corresponding holes in the carsills to assist in securing the dead-block or bumper in place on such car-sills. Other forms of base will be described presently. The body, with its ribs or corrugations and countersunk bolt-receiving portion, may be struck up in dies or otherwise from sheet or plate steel or other wrought metal; and so, also, the base f may be similarly manufactured and from similar material.

A dead-block or bumper constructed of wrought metal struck up in dies is very much lighter than the cast-metal dead-blocks or bumpers heretofore commonly used, and much more durable than either such castmetal or wooden dead-blocks; and I propose to construct my improved dead-blocks or bumpers so that they may be made readily interchangeable with the cast-iron or wooden v dead-blocks now commonly used. This facility for interchangeability is especially valuable where the wrought-metal dead-blocks or bumpers are to take the place of other bumpers on cars already in use.

I have shown the base as separate from the body; but it is'within the scope of my invention to make a dead-block or bumper whose base, face, and sides are integral, or essentially so, and I mean to include broadly such construction of the dead-block or bumper in the claims herein made. As illustrations of two forms of such constructions reference is made to Figs. 5 and 6. In Fig. 5 the base is made by turning in toward one another the sides of the body, and in Fig. 6 the ends of the Vbody are flared outwardly and the flanges of the base are flared inwardly correspondingly, and the two parts interlock.

Vhat I claim isl. A Wrought-metal dead-block or bumper for railway-cars, composed of a body and a base provided with dowels or lugs and a bolt passed through the body and base, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. A wrought-metal dead-block or bumper having a face and top and bottom plates ribbed, substantially described.

A dead-block or bumper for railwaycars, composed of a face having top and bottom plates and a base struck up in dies from steel or other wrought metal, substantially as shown and described.

it. A dead-block or bumper for railwaycars, composed of a face having top and bottom plates and a base struck up in dies from steel or other Wrought metal and united, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 19th day of September, A. D.

CHARLES T. SCI-IOEN. Witnesses:

WM. H. LEWIS,

J. R. MQLEAN, J r.

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